demna gvasalia

Plus: a threatening mix of fetish gear and nationalistic sportwear.

Martine Rose, Balenciaga consultant and anglophile, presents a quintessentially London collection.

And the other Couture Week trends that will permeate the rest of the fashion world.

The designer’s latest menswear collection attempts to subvert middle-class malaise, but instead showcases the fashion industry’s obsession with ceaseless borrowing from other cultures and social classes.

Balenciaga’s Crocs are the latest in designer Demna Gvasalia’s campaign to blur the lines between luxury fashion and the clothing we insist belongs outside of it.